Chromeos 123 Adds Custom Keyboard And Mouse Shortcuts Here S How You Use It

How to Enable and Set Custom Keyboard Shortcuts

Keyboard shortcuts are one of the best ways to navigate around ChromeOS, but the latest update introduces custom keyboard shortcuts, taking it a bit further. With the ChromeOS 123 update, you can edit the existing keyboard shortcuts and assign them to different keys.
While it’s slowly being rolled out to supported Chromebooks, you can flip a flag if the feature hasn’t arrived on your Chromebook yet.

How to Customize Mouse Buttons on ChromeOS

For people who use a mouse with more than two buttons, the update offers a “Customize mouse buttons” feature. This allows mapping specific actions like taking screenshots, playing/ pausing media, etc. to different buttons on your mouse.
To access this feature, navigate to Settings > Device > Mouse > Customize mouse buttons. You can then follow the on-screen instructions to assign different actions to the additional mouse buttons. I couldn’t test it out because my mouse doesn’t have extra buttons. However, it should detect the button press as soon as you click it.
Besides the above options, the ChromeOS 123 update also adds per-app language settings (from Android), the ability to set your Chromebook as a Wi-Fi hotspot, and a new set of text-to-speech voices.
What are your thoughts on these new ChromeOS features? If you don’t own a Chromebook, do you see yourself owning one down the line? Let us know in the comments below.